Dell Latitude D600 laptop Hard Drive replacement

Unless Dell has the upgrade for the bios to include the larger hardware you are going to be in trouble, I would go online to Dell and check for upgrades to your model if they still support it. The other option is contact customer and technical support to see it they can give you a alternative solution.

you can replace it with any IDE drive.
if you have a SATA port on your motherboard you can use any SATA hard drive which is faster than IDE.

I found one for £202.00 a 64GB one.. what an obscene amount of money!
http://www.bzsale.com/product/NEW-64GB-SSD-1-8-ZIF-MLC-for-DELL-D420-D430-OQO-umpc_P7896-GBP.html

I'd suggest you invested in a portable hard drive for your data at a tenth the price you could get a 100GB drive

Dell is very good at supplying part numbers on their home page. One of the ways to find it is do a yahoo search for dell latitude d600 parts.. This should bring you lots of info on d600. From there you can find a Dell parts supplier. here is a link from the search I did: http://www.parts-people.com/index.php?action=category&id=140&subid=117&refine=hard drive

Please note. You wont find a Dell hard drive. They use Western Digital and other brands. Most any hard drive brand will work.

the HDD best to use is an SSD.
the HDD was a standard, 2.5? PATA drive for laptops

why would you want such a small drive, they dont make them now. (40 smallest?) new.

this PC is not supported by HP now, its too old a Pentium III no less.
why would 20gb be and upgrade.?? 10 now? omg , it is 10GB...then... and worse its PATA (IDE) harddrive.



its 17 years old now, most are in the recycle bin,
it came with windows 95 or 98, (hopeless that OS)
the laptop has zero value now, so is putting a new
$50 to 100 dollar drive,is wise,?
what if there are more problems, (endless when that old)

you can not use modern, SATA drive (
just 2.5" PATA (IDE) (pata is wide parallel interface with wide ribbon cable)
here are some

http://www.pricewatch.com/price/hard_removable_drives/notebook_40gb

mostally on bottem acces for hd open with 4 screws and take out the drive and replace it for a bigger or for the same look out by buying hd for the same hight and idee or sata

Hi there.
You can choose from any hard drive manufacturer providing you know what type of hard drive you need, you are certainly not tied to Gateway for parts.


Thanks for choosing FixYa!!

it depend upon ur bios version
u can have hard 40 to 80 Gb

OK, the big question is #1 do you have the interposer board from the old drive attached to the new one? The interposer is an adapter that covers the pins on the HDD and converts them to a sliding spade type contact to better allow insertion/removal of the HDD.

On a warranty replacement drive, the interposer normally comes on the new drive. On one from EBAY, not sure. If the HDD has 2 rows of exposed pins then it doesn't have an interposer attached. If it has a small adapter protruding say 1/4 inch and it has a row of contacts top and bottom, the interposer is on the drive.

If the interposer is on the drive, the drive may be bad. If it is not, remove the one from the old drive and attach it to this one.

You can use any 2.5 inch ATA/IDE drive as a replacement. Notebook hdd's are a smaller size than regular desktop hdd's. You can find a good idea online at stores like tigerdirect.com or newegg.com. Hope this helps & please rate this answer fixya. Thanks.